Window cleaning in The Villages

What The Villages does to a window

The Villages spreads across three counties from Spanish Springs in the north through Lake Sumter Landing to Brownwood and the newer villages south of State Road 44, and nearly every home in it has a lanai, a wall of sliding glass doors and a screened enclosure out back. The live oaks that were left standing along Morse Boulevard, Buena Vista Boulevard and through the older villages drop tassels and a fine yellow pollen from February into April that coats every slider, sill and screen, and the Spanish moss that hangs from them comes down in pieces with every storm and lodges in the tracks and gutters. On the lake side of Virginia Trace, Bridgeport at Lake Sumter and the Lake Miona villages, the morning fog pulls the pollen down onto the glass.

The bigger problem here is the water. Most irrigation in The Villages runs on well water or reclaimed water, both heavy in iron and minerals, and the sprinklers that hit the same lower panes every morning leave orange rust streaks and white spots that a hose will not touch. On the golf course lots in Hemingway, Bridgeport and the villages along the championship courses, the reclaimed water overspray from the fairways reaches the lanai glass as well. Under the screened enclosure the air stays still and damp through the summer rains, and the slider glass, tracks and screens grow a gray-green film by August. Construction has not stopped south of SR 44 around Fenney and Chitty Chatty, and the sand and lime dust settles on glass for a mile.

A quarterly plan suits most Villages homes, with the inside glass and mirrors done once a year, and most customers add a visit right after the spring pollen. Golf course lots and homes on well irrigation often go to every two months through the dry season to keep the rust streaks from setting into the glass. Many of our customers are here from November through April, so we clean the exterior while they are away, send a text before and after each visit, and schedule the inside clean for the week they come back. We know the gate and visitor pass procedure at every village gate, work each village on its own day, and clean the slider tracks on every visit so the doors glide.

Where we work in The Villages

• Lake Sumter Landing and the Lake Sumter villages
• Brownwood Paddock Square and the villages south of CR 466A
• Spanish Springs and the villages along CR 466
• Village of Bridgeport at Lake Sumter and Bridgeport at Lake Miona
• Village of Virginia Trace
• Village of Hemingway
• Village of Fenney and Village of Chitty Chatty
• Morse Boulevard and Buena Vista Boulevard
• The villages south of State Road 44
• Lake Miona and Lake Deaton

We also clean windows in Lady Lake, Wildwood, Leesburg, Ocala and Summerfield, Mount Dora and Tavares.